[Vision2020] The Slate Bailout Guide

[Kenneth Marcy]

The Slate Bailout Guide

An interactive cheat sheet on the trillions of dollars in federal rescue 
packages.

By Chris Wilson and Karim Bardeesy
Updated Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2008, at 6:13 PM ET

Since the economic-stimulus package in February, the federal government has 
offered more than a dozen multibillion-dollar rescue packages for a variety 
of industries and people endangered by the financial chaos and the recession. 
The magnitude of even one of these mega-bailouts is hard enough to grasp—see 
the "Explainer's" take on the meaning of $700 billion—and combined they 
represent trillions of dollars in federal commitments. The following Slate 
visualization attempts to put the magnitude of these rescue packages in 
perspective.

http://www.slate.com/id/2206356/ 


Ken